PHILOS 25A Lecture 29: Lecture 29
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A house it doesn"t exist without us creating it ; nature is spontaneous, and artifact isn"t: the def. of nature, aristotle > nature is a type of principle and cause of motion and stability y (rest0 within those things to which it primarily belongs in their own right and not coincidentally (phys. The nature of it is to fall which means a nature of a stone is to fall: three ways in which nature is predicated, formal > source (or principle, arch ) of change and remaining unchanged in that to which it belongs primarily and of itself (a principle of change in the things itself qua itself, material > the underlying matter in each case of things which have in themselves a source of movement and change, processual > process toward nature (a way we talk about nature, we cannot isolate these three, reductive materialism:
